I’ve Found That A Lot Of People, Including Myself, Have Trouble Visualizing Exactly How Much A Billion

I’m laughing but it’s in pain

Y’all want to see something wild?

Ready for spring

hey, all academic research should be publicly accessible. make use of some of those billions of dollars being misused on military spending, and get rid of paywalls. 

this is a basic investment in the future. when you put scientific advancement behind a paywall, you are literally slowing down the speed of human progress

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 Vote like your life depends on it. Because it does.

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This is an actual quote. Link to original interview 

Please take a moment to check that your voter registration is up-to-date or register for the first time at: https://www.vote.org If your state doesn’t have mail-in voting, you can request an absentee ballot here: https://www.vote.org/absentee-ballot/ 

 Vote like your life depends on it. Because it does.

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time to play another round of “how insidiously xenophobic was your history education”!  

without looking it up, make a list of which 10-15 countries you would assume have the largest population in the world